Chapter 783 Settling Scores

• The air turned brittle. A collective shiver rippled through the group, as if an invisible frost had crawled beneath their coats.
• Yet they knew they had to strike first to survive later. Annabeth's words dripped with murderous intent, so before her fingers so much as twitched, every one of them lunged, powers flaring like knives drawn in the dark.
• Loki and Giovanni started to step forward, but Annabeth's hand snapped out, halting them with a curt shake of her head.